The late J. D. Bernal's lectures given to first-year students in
physics at Birkbeck College, University of London, are presented
here in their entirety, tracing the history of physics up to the
end of the classical era at the end of 19th century, just before
the discoveries of the subatom and relatively were made. In view of
the prestige and profundity of the newer discoveries, Bernal felt
that the classical era was being largely forgotten. In this book,
he attributes a greater relevance to the work of men from the
distant past than is usually given. For instance, the idea of
"atom" not only retains the language of the Greek, Democritus, who
first postulated it, but there is also an absolutely unbroken
connection between the atom of the Greek and that of the modern
physicist. Bernal felt that the historical method would be a
suitable introduction to the fundamental concepts of physics, and
it is hoped that the readers of the book will be able to see
something of the interplay between the theoretical and practical
aspects of the subject.
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